Re: tlug: Kinput2 and Wnn6

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Frank Bennett wrote:

> 
> I'm using the above with Applixware and Kterm, alongside Emacs
> 20.2 with Japanese support.  I've gotten Kinput2 to work with
> similar keystrokes to the Emacs "egg" interface (thanks, Scott,
> for your help on that one).
> 
> Now I've noticed another blemish on Kinput2.  When conversion is
> done in Emacs, the conversion is recorded in the user dictionary,
> so that, say, I only have to tweak わが輩は猫である once to be 我
> 輩は猫である; on subsequent occasions the second reading will be
> presented as the first choice for the string わがはいはねこである.
> This behavior is important to me, because a lot of the
> expressions used in law are not found in common vocabulary and
> need to be teased out of the server the first time around.
> 
> Unfortunately, when the jserver is accessed through Kinput2,
> these learned entries are ignored.  It appears that Kinput2
> entries are recorded (I'm just guessing, but the above string was
> tried in Applixware, tweaked, and then tried again --- had to be
> tweaked again; when it was then tried for the first time in
> Emacs, the hit was correct the first time).  But not even the
> strings that are trained up in Emacs turn up in the same form
> through Kinput2.
> 
> I can't see any good reason why Kinput2 should exhibit this
> limitation.  Is there a fix?  A configuration option?
> 
> Scott? ... :)

I'm asking our Japanese guys again... I'll let you know what they say.

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